The first name Jaden is of Hebrew origin and means ‘grateful’, after the Hebrew word ‘yadown’.
Jaden is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
The name Jaden isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jaden ranks 207. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 10 were named Jaden. In the entire USA, approximately 89,825 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jaden. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
The first name Jaden is of Hebrew origin and means ‘grateful’, after the Hebrew word ‘yadown’.
Hebrew is a... Northwest Semitic language. It was natively spoken by the Israelites, before dying out between 200–400 AD. Fortunately, the language was preserved and finally revived in the 19th century.
The name Jaden may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Jaden is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 808 men in Nevada is called Jaden. In total, that’s 700 people who feel addressed when the name Jaden is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #189 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Jaden as the answer a total of 89,825 times. This places Jaden at #333 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Jaden as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With five letters, the name Jaden is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jaden and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jaden, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Dinosaur
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jaden
Jaden
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
D
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
A
D
E
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jaden sounds like this:
